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2013/10/07

LIFESTYLE | INSIDE "THE PARIS REVIEW" OFFICES

In
New York City's esteemed literary world, there are parties, and then there are The
Paris Review parties. Indeed, as long as the quarterly journal
has garnered respect for discovering new writing talent — Jack Kerouac,
Adrienne Rich, and David Foster Wallace, to name a few — it's also been known
for its all-night, booze-flowing soirées where society and the counterculture
drink from the same bottle of whiskey.

“It’s always been two things at once,” says editor Lorin Stein. “On the one
hand, it’s a hyper-sophisticated, modernist, avant-garde magazine. On the other
hand, it’s sort of a destination party.” And over the decades, the 60-year-old
publication has continually attracted an eclectic crowd, from Jackie O, Truman
Capote, and Norman Mailer, to more recently, Zadie Smith, Malcolm Gladwell, and
the editors of Vice. (Via Refinery29)